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Chinese Youth 14 years has a problem with his eyesight. But after corneal transplant may be a pig, he could see more clearly.
The claim was given by a doctor in China. Reported People's Daily Online, the operation is performed by a medical team from the Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou Province, China on 25 February.
The teenager was previously may have vision problems in his right eye. It is very difficult for teenagers who withheld his name was to see well because of the condition of his eyes were nearly blind. The condition was gained because of a firecracker blast while playing. As quoted by the Daily Mail
Then how operability? Doctors took a damaged cornea, the transparent protective layer above the eye, then replace it with the cornea called Acornea made from pig's eyes.
Before Acornea transplanted into humans, do deselularisasi to get rid of immunogenicity, so that only the collagen is deposited. The goal is to lower the chances of immunological rejection and infection after surgery.
A week later, the teenager right eye vision was reported recovered. But he needs to use special eye drops for a year.
Acornea is the first product that has been accredited by the Chinese Food and Drug Administration in April 2015. After ten years of research, China Regenerative Medicine International (CRMI) started using this artificial cornea.
According to experts in bioengineering in China, initially they tried to use a monkey cornea because it is similar to that of humans. Due to hit the cost, eventually attempted eye research using pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, geese and ducks. From the research, it is known that most closely pig cornea human cornea. Besides the use of pig corneas are also the least risk of the virus into the human body.
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